Ross Brittain

Ross Brittain

By Ross Brittain

January 18, 2019

Good news for fast food mavens --Nacho Fries are coming back to Taco Bell beginning Jan 24. The company announced the move in a "leaked memo" on Thursday. Right.

Where do you rank? A new poll from The Manifest claims 30-percent of Americans are on social media AT LEAST 10 times a day, by liking, sharing or posting content. 94 percent post their own content, including the 42 percent who do it at least once a day.
52 percent use Facebook, while 16 percent use YouTube and 14 percent use Instagram. Snapchat and Twitter are tied for lowest, at six percent each.

If you haven't seen enough of JEFF BEZOS' new girlfriend this past week, you will by the time awards season is over. The NY Post's Page Six says Jeff will be taking LAUREN SANCHEZ to pick up a Living Legends of Aviation honor in Beverly Hills today, and they'll be at the Oscars together on Feb 24th as well. The Post claims Bezos was "so popular" at the Golden Globes this year (where he also brought Lauren) "that he was swarmed for selfies backstage."

January 17, 2019

Movie news... ANNE HATHAWAY will star as the Grand High Witch in BOB ZEMECKIS upcoming movie, "The Witches." She'll be playing the same role that ANJELICA HUSTON did in the 1990 version about a seven-year-old boy who runs into a group of real-life witches.
In ...

January 16, 2019

Movie news: "Ghostbusters" fans will be delighted to find out that original director IVAN REITMAN's son, JASON, will be making a sequel due out in 2020. There's already been two sequels, "Ghostbusters II" in 1989 and the one with female ghostbusters, MELISSA McCARTHY ...

January 15, 2019

Casting call news:
--GAL GADOT will be doing the voice of Wonder Woman in the upcoming "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part"... she's taking over the part from COBIE SMULDERS, who did it in the first movie. MARGOT ROBBIE and JASON MOMOA, will be back as Harley ...

January 14, 2019

Looks like MAROON 5 will be performing at the Super Bowl half-time show after all... despite the sentiment for them to pull out of the concert because the NFL has been asking players to stand when the National Anthem is played. And rappers TRAVIS SCOTT and BIG BOI will ...

January 11, 2019

Oscar and Emmy winner AL PACINO is in talks to star in the upcoming Amazon streaming series called "The Hunt."
The Hollywood Reporter says he'd play a veteran Nazi hunter in the series, which follows a band of Nazi hunters in New York City looking to capture ...

January 10, 2019

See ya! 86-year-old RAMONA MAXINE LUND is behind bars today, accused of beating her 89-year-old husband to death with her walking cane. Once again, Florida rears its ugly head in the news. Police were summoned to the couple's Florida home after neighbors called the ...

January 9, 2019

It should be no surprise that BILL TIMMONS, the CEO of the corporation in charge of an Arizona nursing home has resigned after a woman in a vegetative state gave birth.
The woman had reportedly been in the nursing home for over ten years and required ...

January 8, 2019

Today's the 18th day of the partial government shutdown and in case you're wondering, not everybody is working... National Geographic reports our national parks are mostly open --but you might not wanna use a restroom there. Ssme 16-thousand parks service employees ...

January 7, 2019

That GO-GOs musical, "Head Over Heels," closed last night at the Hudson Theatre. The show had a pre-Broadway run at the Curran Theater in San Francisco, never caught on with New York audiences.
Believe it or not, THE JACKSONS are still touring... but not a lot. ...

A major market radio morning show vet since 1975, Ross Brittain was also the editor of a morning show prep sheet for 25 years. He currently works as a DJ at WCBS-FM in New York City. You can reach Ross at rsbrittain@aol.com.